Method of making mops



P. C. DONAHUE METHOD OF MAKING MOPS Filed Dec. 8, 1924 3Znvc pend loosely T'he object of the inventionis to provide a method whereby a strong and durable mop means of extreme and a minimum number of parts" .State of li lass'achusetts,

Fatented Feb. 16, 1926.

PETER c. noNAHUE,

0 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF MAKING MOPS.

Application To altwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER C. D NAHUE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the countyof Middlesex and have invented new and useful Improvements in Making Mops, of which the following 18 a specification. This invention relates to an improved method of making mops, brooms and the like which include an elongated handle, usually a wooden rod, anda mass of fibrous mop threads or filaments laid side by side, the mass including a neckportion which is the mid-length portion of the mass, and is clamped against the inner end of the handle, and free end portions which defrom the clamped neck portion.

including neck cla-mping simplicity, is produced, the method permitting the quick and economical assembling of the handle, the mop filaments, and theclamping means.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of thisspecification,-

Figure 1 is a side view of a mop con structed according to the method of the in 'VODtlOll. 1 Figure 2 is an enlarged section on line 22 of Figure 1. I V

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig ure 2, the mop filaments and the clamping means being shown in elevation.

Figure 4: is a side view of the ligature vshown by Figures 2 and 3, before its completion.

Figure showing a ture.

Figure 6 is a side view of the ligature shown by Figure 5, before its completion The method of forming a mop in accordance with this invention comprises provid- 5 is a view similar to Figure 3, different embodiment of the liga- 7 ing a handle 12, having at its inner end a concave seat13, and a longitudinal bore- 14 opening on the seat.

In providing a mop such as illustrated in Figures 1 to i a ligature 18, preferably of Methods of after inserted in the through the endless ligature, filaments and the expanded portion of the and tensions the ligature 'ingfa mop which comprises "filed December 8,1924. Serial in. 754,627.-

flexible wire, panded adjacent its open end to receive the neck portions 16 of a mass of fibrous mop filaments 16, suchas cotton yarn, broom corn, rattan or the like.

The, free ends 18? of the ligature 18 are then i ntertwisted as indicated in Figures 2. and 3 to hold the filaments in place, and the unexpanded portion of the ligature is there-,

and secured therein. As shown, an anchor ing member 15, is inserted transversely of the handle bore and engages the ligature to hold it securely in the handle. Afterthe anchoring member has beenfinserted, the handle 12 is held bore 14 of the handle 0i substantially U'sl ape is ,ex-

preferably a wood" screw,

firmly while the-lower ends 18 ot the V ligature are rotatedto cause a furtherintertwisting of them, whichoperation binds the filaments on the seat 13 at theend of the bore in the handle; i

The: method of forming the mop illustrated in'Figures 5 and 6 wherein an endless ligature 19 is employed, is substantially the same as that described except that after the anchoring member .15 has been inserted the mass of ligature, indicated in dotted lines (Fig. 6) are rotated. relative to the handle 12-thereby causing the members of theunexpanded portion of the ligature to intertwi'st as 1ndicated at 19, (Fig. 5). This operation decreases'the distance between the neck-embracing portion and the anchoring member clamps the neck portion 16 against the seat 13. I

I claim: I 1. The herein described method of makhandle having at one end a recessed seat and a bore opening into the seat, a ligature 0 an elongated loop form, ex-

panding the loop at one end, inserting a 1 mass of filaments in said expanded portion ot-the loop fixedly securing the unexpanded end of the loop' in the handle bore, and rotating the mass of filaments relative to the handle to intertwist the members of the loop and bind the filaments on the seat.

so that it firmlyproviding a provlding the handle and the unexpanded end of the loop, transversely fixedly secure said unexpanded portion in the bore, and longitudinally contracting the loop to bind the filaments on the seat.

7 In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature. 7

PETER C. DONAHUE.

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